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Diaper   Listen
verb
Diaper  v. t.  
1.
To ornament with figures, etc., arranged in the pattern called diaper, as cloth in weaving. "Diapered light." "Engarlanded and diapered With in wrought flowers."
2.
To put a diaper on (a child).





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"Diaper" Quotes from Famous Books



... line of the channelled flutes; the Lepidodendra bore, according to their species, sculptured scales, or lozenges, or egg-like hollows, set in a sort of frame, and relieved into knobs and furrows; all of them furnishing examples of a delicate diaper work, like that so admired in our more ornate Gothic buildings, such as Westminster Abbey, or Canterbury and Chichester Cathedrals, only greatly more exquisite in their design and finish. The scroll shells, ...
— The Testimony of the Rocks - or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed • Hugh Miller


Words linked to "Diaper" :   diaper dermatitis, napkin, nappy, garment, textile


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